Remote / Off-site self hosted backup comparison

Every 2 years Primary Technology re-engineers all of it’s services and this year I have been tasked with re-engineering our School offsite / remote backup service. Our current service works well but there are a few things we would change and we feel our current provider isn’t really giving us the support we need to make these changes.

The first part of any successful re-engineering job is to gather a comparison of all the available products on the market.

I reviewed these products/pieces of software:

Ahsay

Attix

Bacula

Crashplan

Dropbox

iDrive Backup

Intronis

One Safe Place

Remote-Backup.com

Rysnc.net

SOS Online Backup

Vembu

XZBackup

Amanda/Zmanda

And I reviewed them based on this following requirements of functionality: